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Health of the budget (Read 1021 times)
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Re: Health of the budget
Reply #15 - Feb 5th, 2012 at 9:15pm
 
A few observations -
1) Cutting the Health Budget will be very, very difficult.
2) In fact, I would suggest impossible!
3) A large chunk of the Health Costs, go on the elderly and with the largest generation in history, the Baby Boomers, currently starting their "official retirement years", the Health costs can be expected to soar, over the next 20 years or so, as that generation age, then leave us forever!
4) A huge number of Health Professionals, are actually Baby Boomers themselves and something like 40% of Health Professionals are due to retire, in the next 10-15 years or so.
5) Anyone who has been into a large hospital recently will realise that a large number of staff are not Australian, they have been "imported" from other countries, such as Asia, Africa, Europe & elsewhere.
6) As the current Baby Boomer Health Professionals retire over the next 10-20 years, I would suggest that both the & Liberal party's plan is for the majority of replacements to come from overseas, not from Australia.
7) That plan will fail, as many of countries will be bidding for that relatively small number of Global Health Care Professionals and the countries we will be trying to take them from will be in much greater need than us.

In short, a few things are likely to happen -
1) Health Costs, as a % of the total Budget, is likely to go up, not down!
2) Health Care, in general, is likely to get worse, not better, as the number of Health Care Professionals, as a % of the total population decreases, not increases.

Oh and off topic, which is what she often does, unless Maqqa can be relevant to the topic, instead of just going over the same, boring Political spin, she may as well not bother!
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